- From: Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:20:11 +0100
- To: uri@w3.org
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:11:14 -0400, Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org> wrote: > > Charles, can you come up with proposed RFC text and/or some test > instances > of hyperlinks with news: and nntp: URIs as href values? I have now proposed some syntax. When we are agreed on that, then some semantics could follow. > I tried to ask on the WAI-IG list "do we particularly need to keep this > up?" > and got some firm affirmatives. Of course it is not clear whether > people thought I meant News as a service or 'news' URIs as a link > notation. I think it is clear that news URLs are in fairly regular use, mainly in the form that quotes a single <message-id>. For an example of one using a <newsgroup-name>, see http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.local.cheshire.html (and lots of similar pages on that site). I have never actually seen an nntp URL in the wild, but I just tried it in my Opera browser, and it sort of worked (including a <range> with two <article-numbers> in it). But I doubt such URLs would be of much use on Usenet, though they might make sense in small private networks. -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Fax: +44 161 436 6133 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: chl@clerew.man.ac.uk Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5
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